Dirty Kirst are a punk rock band from St. Neots. That’s a soul destroying little town outside of Cambridge, UK. They play positive songs about life; drinking, politics, addiction, death, friends and all that good stuff.
In 2005 they self recorded, produced and released their first album, “I’m not asking, i’m telling!!” to rave reviews from the press and went on to score a loyal and much loved fan base.
Regular gigs with other great bands from the scene, large and small (H20, Flatliners, Freak Union, Deadline) fine tuned their sound and their debut single “Doesn’t make you punk” stirred the masses, paving the way for the long awaited second album, "Absence Makes The Music Faster".
Returning with a more polished sound, greater musicianship and deeply introspective lyrics - a mere seven years are their debut offering - Dirty Kirst prove that Punk Rock is still alive in the hearts of those who care.

Update: Formerly 'The Binary Code', they are now known as 'Hack the Mainframe' as TBC was taken by some metal band.

The Binary Code are a brand new band featuring members of Wiseheimer, Local Resident Failure, Friends With the Enemy, Cash No! and LAST. What makes TBC different to conventional bands is the fact that all members live hundreds of kilometres from each other and all communication/jamming/recording is done over the internet.

GAS Drummers released some days ago the second single 'Fallen Angels' from their upcoming album to be released on February. The song features Geir Pedersen (Adhesive) on vocals and Jeff "Rhino" Neumann (Mexican Sugar Skulls) on guitars

Xmas may have been X’ed back in September when 'Self Entitled' dropped, but given that this is the last Christmas, we thought we should spoil you with one last NOFX limited edition vinyl release. It’s the third single of the year from NOFX, and a double A-side at that: Xmas Has Been X’ed / New Year’s Revolution. The A-side is classic NOFX, a true punk rock Christmas anthem to be filed right next to Fear’s Fuck Christmas. And in typical NOFX fashion, it’s a Christmas story wherein the Jews come out on top. Shocker. Now flip the record over to the AA-side and you’ve got your “New Year’s Revolution,” an outtake from the Self Entitled sessions, followed by a new recording of the much-loved but overlooked gem “Wore out the Soles of My Party Boots.”

Californian punk legends Bad Religion are gearing up for the release of their sixteenth album 'True North', out January 25th through Epitaph Records. The album sees the band return to their “original mission statement of short concise bursts of melody and thought.”

Q: So, how did you find the recording process of ‘True North,’ having put constraints on the album?A: I actually think the recording process was probably the best of all of them. We really aimed to record short, fast, concise and stripped down punk songs. We didn’t really have the need to overthink and so we could focus on other things – the delivery and the conveying feeling of the tracks. I also think Joe Barresi (producer – The Dissent of Man, Pennywise, Queens of the Stone Age) had really gotten comfortable at the helm. We recorded on tape this time round, and I think that turned out really well.

Lowbrow are a melodic skate punk band from Costa Mesa, California. They have been playing together since around 2000, with their first self-titled EP coming out in 2001. 10 years later they are finally releasing their second official piece of music, “Doing It All Wrong”.

Skatepunkers would like to wish each and everyone of you a Merry Christmas! All over the world everyone gathers under the same roof whether it is friends or family during the Christmas season. We wish you all the best of health, happiness, prosperity, wealth and peace. May all your wishes come true in 2013!

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Effervescence Records setting up a competition where they'll be giving away an awesome Mute pack (1 CD + 1 vinyl OR both MUTE european vinyl edition of "Thunderblast") to the person who wins a covering contest of any MUTE song.

The only thing you have to do is record your drum/bass/guitar cover and post it right here. You have until the 15th of January.

“So you’ve heard 2 of the 13 songs on the record, we are really proud of this one and we think you guys are going to enjoy it! Being a 100% DIY band means it takes more time and effort to get things done, but in the end, you can hear the pride/passion that is put into every aspect of the record. It is truly 100% Asado. With that being said, we really do appreciate you being patient with us and we will be realeasing more songs as we approach the release. Any labels/distro who like what they hear and want to help spread the noise shoot us a message! lets dance!”

Rentokill is DEAD. After this long time of our hiatus, it´s better to end it official, now! we will not play any shows in the near future.
we had a great time in the punkrock universum and and we met so many great people! I think this date, today, is perfect for this news ;) - thank you to all of you which supported us for many years. we love you all!
enjoy your lives!

Cheers! and a happy end of the "world" ;)
rentokill
*bertl the turtle

...we have some other projects and bands running, so we decided to run this site for the future as well, to keep you informend.

Rentokill was an Austrian hardcore/punk band. The band was founded in 1996 and they published two D.I.Y demos in 1999 and 2001.
Their first album Back To Convenience was released in 2004 on Rise or Rust Records and on Broken Heart Records. After touring through England and Germany Back To Convenience got re-released by Vitaminepillen Records and Engineer Records. They continued touring through Europe and started to record their new album in spring 2006.
This album called AntiChorus was released on 18 May 2007 on Rude Records, No Reason Records and Broken Heart Records with following tours through Europe.
In early 2009 they toured with Strike Anywhere and Rise Against through several European countries. On March 24, the Union Label Group from Montreal released their album AntiChorus in Canada which was followed by Rentokill's first North American tour with High Five Drive from Winnipeg. The band have also toured with A Wilhelm Scream. Since June 2010, the band was on hiatus.

Lyrics:
Unrepentant vagabond
Plot the new coordinates and cast the map aside
Now I gotta ramble on
Navigate the pitfalls and cross the great divide

The mapmaker's legend gave direction and a key
He set the declination but what good is it to me?

I can't see the rationality
The world's not my responsibility
And happiness isn't there for me
But maybe I'll inch closer to the source
When I find true north
(with or without a friend. Keep searching 'til the end.)

Tempting fate and cheating death
No one ever told me it was going to be like this
Contemplate the randomness
When the mind is willing it gets downright perilous

Overburdened, underwhelmed, their ethical decree
That's your moral compass but what good is it to me?

I can't see the rationality
The world's not my responsibility
And happiness isn't there for me
But maybe I'll inch closer to the source
When I find true north
(with or without a friend. Keep searching 'til the end).
When I find true north.

Back in October, the 2012 edition of the Fat Wreck Chords Tour, featuring Lagwagon, The Flatliners, Dead to Me and Useless ID, rolled through Toronto. Before the doors opened, Joey Cape, Tyson "Chicken" Annicharico, Chris Cresswell and Yotam Ben Horin, sat down to discuss their favourite Fat bands, fond Fat Tour memories and the ways they discover new music today.

Bad Religion will be releasing a brand new single titled 'True North' next week off their upcoming album with the same name to be released this January. You'll be able to listen a preview and buy the new single right here on December 18. The band released another song from the new album that you can listen here. Read also an interesting article of Bad Religion speaking about the new release here.

Listen below the first track released from After The Fall's upcoming record, Unkind. "Decade" is the closing song on the record and gives a good sense of After The Fall's core sound. The album will be released on March 19 via Paper + Plastic. You can preorder the album right here.

01. Beyond The Horizon
02. Equal Inequality
03. A Giant Leap
04. Atavistic Dreams
05. Pain And Regret - Take One
06. Head Over Heels
07. Unleash The Fire
08. King For A Night
09. Odyssey
10. The Modern Way
11. Business Suits And Combat Boots
12. Derail
13. Different Roads
14. Reinvented
15. The end

Utopia Now started out as a band in late 2006 but had been around in a different form (but with the same singer and songwriter) under the name Indigo since 2002, sharing the stage with bands such as Lagwagon, Anti Flag, A Wilhelm Scream, No Trigger, Good Clean Fun, Venerea and many more. However, despite a promising start the band was short-lived and split in 2007. Today the band lives on in the form of an online solo project by the band’s founder, singer, and songwriter, Stephan Serowy. The music is distributed for free and can be found all over the internet (and via the download links on this page)
"Besides" is a collection of previously unreleased songs that never quite made it past the demo stage and were, for one reason or another, dropped by the bands the singer had written them for. Most of these songs were written and recorded at least 8 years ago, some are even older.
With the exception of the drums, all these recordings are the original recordings made at the time.

01. Sk8boarding Hurts More When You're Over 30
02. The Only Way To Make It Through The Day
03. Guess What?
04. Do You Believe?
05. You Remind Me The Kids I Used To Hate At School
06. Half Burning Cigarette Butts
07. Blue Pill
08. I Had Way Too Much Fun
09. Jim Got In A Fight With Brian Molko
10. Too Drunk To Truck
11. Distorted Information

In a little over 10 years of non stop touring the Uncommonmenfrommars conquered the international punk rock scene becoming a reference in Europe. The band has released 5 full length records, 3 of which were produced by legendary punk producer Ryan Greene (NOFX, Lagwagon, Bad Religion…) in San Francisco CA and Phoenix AZ. They also had the pleasure to work with the great Steve Albini on their 2002 acoustic EP Kill The Fuse at the legendary Electrical audio studios in Chicago IL.
They have shared tours with bands such as Lagwagon, Toy Dolls, Spermbirds, etc.… and stages with various bands like Millencolin, Boucing Souls, Rise Against… All adding up to over 950 shows around the world.

Passage 4 was a skate punk from Arboga, Sweden, which existed from 1991 until 1997. Nowadays the band is credited for being one of the first skatepunk bands to incorporate elements of emo/indie rock in their music.

Recently someone uploaded two videoclips for the songs Team (off 'Something To Start With') and Human Doll (off 'World Circus').

This is the story about the videos (taken from YouTube comments).

We (friends/fans from Arboga and band members) had a discussion over at Facebook a year ago or so, when the bass player Carla said he had the 2 videos on VHS tape somewhere, but no way to get it over to﻿ the Computer, so I offered to do just that. Well, 2 days ago he contacted me and said he finally had found the tape, so I went and picked it up at his Tattoo Studio here in town(Arboga).